Quotes About Wisdom

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.

There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.

Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow.

Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred.

Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge Because Knowledhe Is Limited But Imagination Is Without Boundaries

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

Knowledge is our ultimate good.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

Knowledge is never too dear.

Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.